· Private foundation
Sollie Emmitt McCreless & Lilla Marr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $30,000 |
| ASBURY UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| EDIFY | $15,000 |
| RELIANT MISSION | $12,000 |
| A FOUNDATION OF THEOLOGICAL EDUCATI | $5,000 |
| WORLD LINK MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST | $2,400 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Sollie Emmitt McCreless & Lilla Marr’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ATASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY9× · 2017–2025 · $293k · revenue +106%
- ACASBURY COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $227k · revenue +17%
- CHChristian Health Service Corps Inc3× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue +178%
Funded once
- AFA FOUNDATION FOR THEOLOGICAL EDUCATone grant, 2024 · $7k
- GNGOOD NEWS INCone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue -50%
- OMONE MISSION SOCIETY USA INCone grant, 2024 · $6k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.
The mission of the school is to provide the students of acs with quality, god-centered education; training children in the way they should go, equipping students to glorify god by being a witness for jesus christ to the world through a…
Partner with families to provide students a christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith and service. the school desires to associate with like-minded teachers, administrators, staff, parents, and students to communicate the…
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
Is to provide educational opportunities for gifted students who have limited academic experiences and resources but unlimited potential for leadership in society.
Its purpose is to offer a holistic educational program that will motivate the student to value and achieve academi excellence within the context of commitment to moral and spiritual values.
Wesley biblical seminary is a multi-denominational school of theology that provides undergraduate, graduate and doctorate level education for individuals who are preparing for christian service.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
God's bible school and college seeks to glorify god and to serve his church by providing higher education centered in holy scripture and shaped by wesleyan conviction, thus preparing faithful servants to proclaim jesus christ and spread…
The mission of Luther Rice College & Seminary is to serve the church and community by providing biblically based on-campus and distance education to Christian men and women for ministry and the marketplace with an end to granting…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds ASBURY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Christian Health Service Corps Inc ↗
- Who funds Edify ↗
- Who funds Achievers Center for Education ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KOR EDUCATION SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RANSOMED LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD LINK MINISTRIES INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sollie Emmitt McCreless & Lilla Marr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sollie Emmitt McCreless & Lilla Marr. Bigger dots raise more.
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